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and about half the bees, in the spring, and establishing them as a new swarm, 

 when the bees remaining in the old hive have to rear a new queen from a worker 

 grub. From the time required to accomplish this, it follows that no eggs can be laid 

 for about three weeks ; by this lime the workers producing eggs laid by the ok! queeu 

 will have been hatched out, and the cells filled wilh honey, when the whole of the 

 bees are to be driven out, and the honey, which will be found perfectly free from 

 brood, retained for use. The plan had been very successfully worked at the bee- 

 house of the Apiarian Society, and specimens of the results were submitted to the 

 Meeting. 



September 5, 1859. 

 Dr. Gray, President, in the chair. 



Donations. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors : — ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. x. No. 30 ; presented by the 

 Society. 'Farm Insects,' Parts 3 and 4 ; by the Author, John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S. 

 'The Zoologist' for September; by the Editor. 'Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Knowledge,' Vol. x. ' Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Insiitution for the year 1837 ; 'Reply to the Statement of the Trustees of the Dud- 

 ley Observatory,' by Benj. Aplhorp Gould, jun. ; 'Defence of Dr. Gould, by the 

 Scientific Council of the Dudley Observatory ;' by the Smithsonian Institution. 'The 

 Athensum' for July; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' fur Au- 

 gust; by the Society. 'The Literary Gazette for August; by the Editor. 



Election of a Subscriber. 

 R. W. Fereday, Esq., of 2, Lcighton Villas, Talbot Road, Kentish Town, was bal- 

 loted for and elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



The President exhibited, on behalf of their captor. Dr. Power, the following 

 British Coleoplera, wilh localities and dates of capture : — 



Anchomenus versutus, Gj/ll. Wimbledon, July 30, 1858. 



Polystichus fasciolatus. Sheerness, June and August, 1859. 



Trechus longicornis. Banks of Ribble, July, 1859. 



Acrognalhus mandibularis, Gi/ll. Darenth, June 19, 1859. 



Odacantha melanura. Merton, August. 1859. 



Deleaster dichrous. Colney Hatch. June 25, 1859. 



Anchomenus pelidnus (var. Thoreyi f). Merlon, July, 1859. 



Ancylophorus glabricollis, Eric. Merton, July 26, 1859. 



Helophorus intermedins. Merton, July, 1859. 

 The two last-mentioned species had not previously been recorded as natives of Britain. 



Mr. Smith remarked, with reference to Polystichus fasciolatus, that Mr. Hewitson 

 took this species in some plenty, on the shore to the west of Southwold, near Lowe- 

 stoft ; they were found under stones above the shingle on the sloping shore, in front 

 of the salt marsh beyond which is the mud wall leading to the ferry over to Walben- 

 wick. The salt marsh abounds in species of Colcoptera. The date of capture was 

 the mouth of April. 



